Warning on umbrella (folding) stroller

I have to confess to be one of those folks who broke that rule frequently 25 yrs or so ago.

Baby is sleeping- so it is much easier to hold the top of the handles while 'breaking' the bar that holds them apart with the other hand while baby still sleeps in the stroller. There was a button that needed to be pressed to unlock the bar. Once you raised the center a bit,it would stay unlocked.

Then hold the baby in one arm, and while holding the handle in the same hand as your bag of groceries, [the same side that is holding the bag of baby-crap like bottles, diapers, etc] your knee can push that bar up to finish folding the stroller.

I hope they are better designed today- but I can see how a company might want to cover their ass by telling folks to do it differently.

Jim

Folding strollers?

You mean that I didn't have to keep buying bigger vehicles to fit those full size strollers in?

That double stroller was huge!

I think they make folding double stollers. Umbrella style.

Well this puts a whole new light on things.

Does your wife know you did this?

I thought you were going to tell me you just picked the baby up, wrapped in his partially folded stroller.

I guess now I can too.

My favorite warning is still the one on the Superman costume. "Caution: Suit does not enable the wearer to fly."

I was kidding about needing the bigger vehicles.

Actually we did have a folding double, but it wasn't an umbrella type.

It was a double "long" as opposed to a side by side and each seat reclined. I think it cost me over $200 and that was 18 years ago.

Something like this:

That makes it too hard to get them in the overhead storage when flying.

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I don't get it. Are they saying 'no nailguns' or 'no hammers' -- or 'only use on roofs'?

Jim

Don't let Stevie Wonder use your nailgun.

Jon

Sounds like good advice to me.

The alternative sounds somewhat counter-productive.

But think how much your kids have cost you since!

Looks like a tank. It would be great for running down little children.